The unnamed officer and a young woman were sitting in a car at East 183 Street and Tiebout Avenue in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx at around 6pm, according to the New York Police Department.
The officer thought he was meeting Diamond Sanchez, 21, for a date, police sources told the New York Daily News.
They were sitting at the intersection when two men - Christopher Santana, 22, and Leonel Cuevas, 26 - walked up to them and tried to rob them, sources said.
Santana and Cuevas both ended up in the hospital after the correction officer - whose name and age have not been revealed - shot them multiple times. The pair was arrested along with the young woman, who seems to have been working against her 'date' from the very beginning.